at one's elbow
Example Sentences
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He knows to a nicety how many millions or billions of dollars one needs at one's elbow to annihilate this or that bugaboo of deflation.
From Time Magazine Archive
In some way one associates one's day dreams with the lake and falls into thinking that there is something unfinished, sterile about living with no lake at one's elbow.
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben
Well, honest Tommaso, it is a happiness to have a mariner as skilful as yourself, in these troublesome times, at one's elbow!
From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by Cooper, James Fenimore
"Yes," said I, shortly, and hoping to be rid of him, for to have a babbling guide at one's elbow on occasions of this kind is fatal to intelligent enjoyment.
From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by Vincent, J. E. (James Edmund)
Bruhl is not now in an unprepared state:—here are Uhlans at one's elbow looking on.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Carlyle, Thomas
